From reformation to improvement
Subtitle: public welfare in early modern England
By: Paul Slack.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Public welfare -- England -- History; Social problems -- England -- History; Alsmhouses -- England -- History; Workhouses -- England -- History; England -- Social policy; England -- Social conditions -- 16th century; England -- Social conditions -- 17th century
Description: Between the 16th and the 18th centuries, the character of English social policy and social welfare changed fundamentally. From Reformation to Improvement looks at the intellectual and political roots of this change.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The Ford lectures delivered in the University of Oxford, 1994-1995."